At 9:56 AM +0200 28-04-2000, Walter Doerwald wrote: >But I find UCS-2 much cleaner, because it's easily distinguished from >ASCII/UTF-8/ISO8859-1/..., distinguishing between UTF-8 and ISO8859-1 has >to be done by "external" methods. How does Python do it? It doesn't; it'll just assume utf-8... Just